Posts by freemindfade

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So , how "worldly" did you get?

by greenhornet in

i even hate to use that word worldly tm.. any way i'm probably the worst.. 1 when the jw s come to my door i say i'm not interested .

2 i have gone to many churches and volunteered.. 3 i shredded all my jw books and magazines out in the woods.. 4 had the mormon elders over and studied with them.. 5 tried pot (its legal here).

6 open carry my fire arm every where (legal here also).

freemindfade

You name it, I've done it/doing it. I've even eaten blood pretty early on lol.

haven't voted yet actually

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Why Do Intelligent People Believe in God?

by cantleave in

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one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.

this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

freemindfade

Atheism is a lack of belief in "God" not a claim that there isn't one. (for every flipping out).

Pretty safe to day the abrahamic tyrant-god of the OT as well as most myths are not real. Beyond that what is there to believe in??? You WANT to believe. And that's fine for you, so relax.

It takes a lot of balls to admit that your belief is really just a desire to believe.

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Do you still believe in God?

by FormerlySandL in

i never thought i would admit it, but i don't.

i might superstitiously have some kind of doubt but digging a bit deeper in my heart i really don't believe in god.

as a human i could never just sit and watch people be tortured, live years of abuse, suffer from illness and disabilities and all the other awful things people have to endure day after day without doing something about it.

freemindfade

I think I have removed the word belief entirely from my life. I try to go these days by what I have actually experienced.

agree 100% I feel that word is abused and misused. "wanting to believe" is probably what should be used far more often. After being grilled by in family over and and over and over "what do you believe!" "what do you believe!!" "what do you believe!!!!!" I finally came to the conclusion that what you believe or want to believe (that can't be proven) is personal. So is any believe a say theistic person can't handle. I am not here to preach and change their belief, I will call BS "BS" if asked.

I sum up belief this way: "I believe what I can prove to be true" the end.

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Do you still believe in God?

by FormerlySandL in

i never thought i would admit it, but i don't.

i might superstitiously have some kind of doubt but digging a bit deeper in my heart i really don't believe in god.

as a human i could never just sit and watch people be tortured, live years of abuse, suffer from illness and disabilities and all the other awful things people have to endure day after day without doing something about it.

freemindfade

I never thought I would admit it, but I don't.

Its a liberating feeling isn't it?.

There will always be things we don't understand (yet), but to superstitiously label them all with 'God' is a mistake.

& Acts5v29, with all due respect, stop reading the Goat Herder's Guide to the galaxy and pick up some other books, you have the abrahamic mind virus...bad

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If your Absence doesn't affect them, then your Presence never mattered!

by stuckinarut2 in

what a powerful quote!.

"if your absence doesn't affect them, then your presence never mattered.".

how true!

freemindfade

But this is not a thread to moan about being neglected...it is actually a powerfully refreshing thread that helps us to see reality, and move forward with confidence in living a real life by making REAL friends.

100% agree!

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Can any believer make a case for the superiority of faith over knowledge?

by Half banana in

i find it curious why so many here on this site, in the face of factual evidence for things such as evolution and the impossibility for anyone to make a coherent interpretation for the bible, would still prefer faith to knowledge?.

can any believer attempt a defence of this position?.

freemindfade

short answer

most people don't really want the truth, they just want reassurance that what they believe is the truth

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Need to vent: My loathing for the JW cult increases more and more, while my wife clings more and more to it

by goingthruthemotions in

just as i think my loathing for the jw cult has peaked, it goes higher and higher.

i wish this cult would just go away.

i wish my wife would just wake up.

freemindfade

Hang in there my friend.

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Christadelphian

by Billy1000 in

my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.

i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.

in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.

freemindfade

Religion is a social technology of a bygone era. A left over of our imagination. God is a place holder simply for things we don't understand yet, born out of fear and ignorance.

You need to take a serious exegesis look at the bible, outside of any organization religion. You will find it is:

Inaccurate
Abhorrent
Not really harmonious in anyway you thought
Plagiarized
Contradictory
And never intended to be what people have made it

And welcome

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Help finding a video of GB member saying that Jehovah may not really be God's name

by mamacita29 in

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hi everyone i'm at work and need to show this video to a jw.

i saw it a few weeks ago i think it was geoffry jackson who said that jehovah may or may not be gods real name but we use it anyways.

can someone help me find that video?

freemindfade

I am not going to jump into the back and forth debate about this, but just point something out.

All this convoluted discussion about the name of the supposed goat herder God of everything in the universe who is suppose to want us to know him and use his name just shows how god damned stupid "God" and "religions" (especially those of "abrahamic" origin) are. It's a total clusterf-ck.

Hi my name is Freemindfade, that's my name here, and I just told it to you, how about you god, what's your name? Keep digging for those "nuggets" of truth there kids :)

FML...

I think a more interesting discussion and research project is the origins of the name.

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X-Men Apocalypse & Yahweh

by smiddy in

i have watched the trailer for this movie , and the bad guy in this makes the statement something like this, when asked who are you ?

his reply , i have been called many names over time , and yahweh was one of them .. will jw.org ban the jdubs from seeing it ?

being not suitable for a christian ?

freemindfade

Some self righteous witness told me they wouldn't see it because it said that. I was like "wow".

Even if i was still in that line would not have phased me one bit or made me think about not watching it. Witnesses act borderline superstitious about this crap.

It does make a great point though about myths, and "god's" of the past. I think its cool because it shows a real perspective on these gods and how the names and ideas morph over time, and stories are retold and changed and so on. We live in a great time of information and the movie fiction is simply playing into the knowledge about how there really is no vishnu, yeweh etc...(there are no xmen either but this is entertainment not religion lol)

I've enjoyed the X-Men franchise.

I have as well, I am not a comic fan, but since the first one they have consistently impressed me.